R Contracts in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 165 169
Rank change year-on-year +45 +4 -23
Contract jobs citing R 18 3 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.66% 0.089% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 0.34% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 22
10th Percentile £356 £263 £351
25th Percentile £358 £362 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.68% +19.39%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile - £595 £587
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +80.00% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 625 885 1,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.01% 26.35% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 653 959
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £539
90th Percentile £638 £659 £614
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 17
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.74 £16.87
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.16 £20.25
Median hourly rate £51.78 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.99% -14.48% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £88.88 £45.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +30 9 £363 -39.58% 5
West Midlands +24 9 £550 +47.06% 19
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 5 (27.78%) Impala
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) Power Query
4 1 (5.56%) QlikView
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Police
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) SIEM Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Process Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Process Mapping Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Anaconda
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
1 8 (44.44%) Ubuntu
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) DataOps
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 8 (44.44%) RBAC
2 8 (44.44%) SIEM
3 7 (38.89%) Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Data Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Decision Tree
4 5 (27.78%) Logistic Regression
5 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 4 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Change Management
7 2 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (11.11%) Data Science
7 2 (11.11%) ETL
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 8 (44.44%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kibana
1 8 (44.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft